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Erase Una Vez

Margaret Atwood

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Desorden moral/ Moral Disorder

Margaret Atwood

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The Tent

Margaret Atwood

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Writing With Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005

Margaret Atwood

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Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.

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Other editions: 2005, 2004, Softcover - 2001, 2000, Hardcover - 2000, Hardcover - 2000, Hardcover - 2000

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Van Gogh's Ear: World Poetry for the New Millenium

Margaret Atwood; Maya Angelou; Carolyn Cassady; Neal Cassady; Leonard Cohen

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Frozen In Time: The Fate Of The Franklin Expedition

Margaret Atwood; Owen Beattie; John Geiger

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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present.

Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman’s recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn why we also learn about a world that could become ours one day.

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Other editions: 2003, Hardcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2003, 2003, 2003

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Oryx Y Crake

Margaret Atwood

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Second Words: Selected Critical Prose, 1960-1982

Margaret Atwood

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Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes

Margaret Atwood

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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Margaret Atwood

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: “What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?” Her answer is “survival and victims.”

Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1972, 1972, Softcover - 1972

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

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Resurgir

Margaret Atwood

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Journals Of Susanna Moodie

Margaret Atwood; Charles Pachter

Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie is one of her most enduring volumes of verse. These poems, set against the Canadian landscape from pioneer days to the 20th century, offer timeless insights into human survival and renewal - in nature and in civilization. Artist Charles Pachter's vivid, original serigraphs illuminate the poems, breathing heat and light into every page. The faithful reproduction of the original 1980 hand-printed, limited edition is introduced with a memoir by Charles Pachter and a foreword by David Staines.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 1970

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.

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Other editions: 2004, 2002, 1999, Hardcover - 1998, Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1989, Softcover - 1989, 1987, Softcover - 1987

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Sparknotes the Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

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Ground Works: Anvant-Garde for Thee

Margaret Atwood; Christian Bk

This anthology of Canadian experimental writers evokes the rich and unexpected heritage of current Canadian fiction. It contains groundbreakingly ruptured, side-splittingly excessive, weirdly lucid, and above all, endlessly interesting writing. Contributors include Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, Graeme Gibson, Christopher Dewdney, George Bowering, and Matt Cohen, as well as innovators such as Ray Smith, J. Michael Yates, Gail Scott, Andreas Schroeder, Audrey Thomas, and Robert Zend.

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Life before Man

Margaret Atwood

Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover...and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably toward the same climax.

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Other editions: 2003, Softcover - 1996, Softcover - 1990, Hardcover - 1980, 1979

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Negotiation With the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Margaret Atwood

Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood’s definitive look at the role of the writer.

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors that writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain -- or excuse -- their activities, looking at what roles they have chosen to play.

Margaret Atwood’s wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by personal anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer. The lightness of her touch is offset by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature.

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Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Margaret Atwood

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Bodily Harm

Margaret Atwood

A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.Margaret Atwood is the author of over twenty-five books, including fiction, poetry, and essays. Among her most recent works are the bestselling novels Alias Grace and The Robber Bride and the collections Wilderness Tips and Good Bones and Simple Murders. She lives in Toronto.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1996, Softcover - 1988, Hardcover - 1982, Hardcover - 1981

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El Asesino Ciego

Margaret Atwood

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The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she cant eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, but she really just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemporary literary fiction.

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Other editions: 2002, 2001, Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1996, Softcover - 1991, Softcover - 1980, 1969